Reducing foreclosures

I thought this sentence the blogger quoted most interesting:

If the initial DTI is also the threshold for ex post DTI, then, with income risk, about 70 percent of the loans will become unaffordable even without the reset.

The long term assumption used to be that personal income growth during a career and a manageable inflation would result in the payments being less and less of an issue as the term of the mortgage moved on. And you’d buy a life insurance policy so your wife and kids could stay in the home if you died unexpectedly. Prices lately have trended toward the maximum payments that buyers could afford. They have a very long way to back down to get back to how things used to be. They have a long way to back down to get to something more sustainable. That means a lot of lost equity, and it means buyers becoming more sensible and risk averse and thinking about what if in the long term. But I suspect it means an extended cycle of fairly high prices, high default rates, and unpredictable default — banks seem to be more loss averse than risk averse.

This runs against the experience of Clayton Homes that Buffett put in his latest shareholder letter (PDF)

Clayton’s 198,888 borrowers, however, have continued to pay normally throughout the housing crash, handing us no unexpected losses. This is not because these borrowers are unusually creditworthy, a point proved by FICO scores (a standard measure of credit risk). Their median FICO score is 644, compared to a national
median of 723, and about 35% are below 620, the segment usually designated “sub-prime.† Many disastrous pools of mortgages on conventional homes are populated by borrowers with far better credit, as measured by FICO scores.

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Why are our borrowers – characteristically people with modest incomes and far-from-great credit scores – performing so well? The answer is elementary, going right back to Lending 101. Our borrowers simply looked at how full-bore mortgage payments would compare with their actual – not hoped-for – income and then decided whether they could live with that commitment. Simply put, they took out a mortgage with the intention of paying it off, whatever the course of home prices.

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Commentary about the current housing crisis often ignores the crucial fact that most foreclosures do not occur because a house is worth less than its mortgage (so-called “upside-down† loans). Rather, foreclosures take place because borrowers can’t pay the monthly payment that they agreed to pay. Homeowners who have made a meaningful down-payment – derived from savings and not from other borrowing – seldom walk away from a primary residence simply because its value today is less than the mortgage. Instead, they walk when they can’t make the monthly payments.

Now, Buffett obviously is not a neutral party here, being an investor in Clayton Homes. But I don’t think he’s out-and-out lying.

I’m looking at the Fed paper and I can’t see mortgage problems broken out by various levels of DTI, only one aggregate statistical correlation. Histograms would be very nice here.

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So, does everybody keep trying to convince themselves of this – the uselessness of mortgage modification – because they still think there’s some risk that TARP money will be used for, well, TARP? Relief of troubled mortgage assets?

I’m current on my mortgage (by amazing feats of mathematical and working gymnastics), but man is the payment it a huge slice of my income.

I’m underwater and all it would take is one good crisis … so the idea that giving me more breathing room is *useless*, because I’ll still default anyway, seems kind of counterintuitive.

A rate modification would greatly improve the stability of [i]this[/i] little slice of the economy over at my house.

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